Yellen expects rate hike this year, but cites labor weakness

July 10, 2015 4:33 PM

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CLEVELAND Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen on Friday said she expects the Fed to raise interest rates at some point this year, but pointed strongly to her concerns that U.S. labor markets remain weak and that more workers could be encouraged back into the job market with stronger growth.

In a speech that cautioned about the status of workers as well as some of the international risks that have developed, Yellen gave no direct hint about whether she anticipates more than one rate hike over the Fed's four remaining meetings in 2015.

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Two issues I see:1) A lot of dialogue is not well spoken. Some of the actors are just lazy and simply mumble. Note that in many old movies the enunciation is almost exaggerated, as if they were in a diction class, or in a live, un-amplified stage play. They speak in sort of a semi-British, upper class North American accent -- very accessible. Actors today also talk over one another's lines. That's what we do in real life, but it's not great for a movie when you have four at a dinner table scene.2) When the editors get into an editing suite, they are listening on ultra-expensive, top of the line professional equipment in an acoustically dead room, not the eight-year-old Sony in the "family room" with hard surfaces.

As someone noted above, in the old movies enunciation is almost exaggerated. My hearing is not perfect, but I understand dialogue in old movies. I think that the acting (and directing) techniques have changed, and today screen actors are directed to speak in stage whisper, as if that was more realistic, but in my opinion is unnatural and leads to the problems described in the article.

Wow. Those are some ugly windows and huge freakin supports. Maybe the photography is bad... but it doesnt seem like the unit was designed to take advantage of the views. I guess that's why they had to put the pool in.

The sound mixing is so bad on present day movies that my wife and I will often turn on the closed captioning on American movies. I have been aware of this problem for the past several years and it is getting worse.

I live a block away geographically, and a million miles away financially from this building. Overall impressions: ugly on the outside. Foster and Partners did the neighborhood no favors, except for perhaps the entry court which is nice to look at. Purportedly the design was art deco inspired, which seems a huge stretch. The only good thing about this building is that it makes the neighboring Trump World Tower, which I always thought was rather stark, seem elegant in comparison.I'm sure this apartment is cool and the views are great though.

And, despite some sort of regulation covering the excessive volume on commercials vis a vis content, commercials still blare. One turns down the volume on the ads, and when the program returns, volume is so quiet as to be inaudible. Is no one in government paying attention? Or do those honchos inside the Beltway think all they need do is create a regulation, and ignore enforcement, and monetary penalties for violators?

Thank you for this article. This is a huge source of complaint in my household. We're constantly fiddling with the volume to hear dialogue, and then turning it down during the action sequences. If one member of the family has mild hearing loss, as I do, then the sound management becomes an even bigger problem. Hollywood really needs to get on this and STOP producing movies that have this sort of sound signature. Or perhaps they should consider one sound track for movie theaters, and something more suitable for home release over cable.

A much bigger problem is the drastic changes in volume during a show. One minute we're hitting the volume up to hear, the next our ears are blown out. We have a calibrated home theater system. I used to have a Magnavox TV (decades ago) that kept the commercials sound the same volume as the show. I wish this was prevalent technology again.

Why no mention of the possibility that the sound techs on the film might have done a lousy job...especially with fast moving dialogue. Mixing music and voice shouldn't be that difficult yet, in the rush to finish a production, little attention is sometimes given to the voice audio track and the required balance. In other words, it may NOT be your hearing.

The soundbar that we use to allow us to hear dialogue (Yamaha, I think) also has a control that levels out the volume, so that commercials are no longer louder than the shows. The big plus is that the sound has much higher fidelity than is available with the speakers built in to the TV. Plus, on sale, it was only about $110

Yes! I thought I was the only one to do that. I have perfect hearing, but some shows are just impossible to understand. The second season of True Detective is one such show. Season One, for some reason, was much better even though they were all in a deep southern accent.